Neal Brennan Has Tried a LOT of Things

If you’ve listened to our show before, you know that we recommend
a period of trial and error to find a mental health treatment
that works best for you. Nothing works for everyone, after all,
so you have to see what you respond to. Neal Brennan is the
embodiment of that concept and in this interview he reports back
on how well or poorly it went for him trying Freudian therapy,
antidepressants, transcranial magnetic stimulation, a special
kind of TMS available in China, ketamine, ayahuasca, 5 MeO-DMT,
and other solutions. The good news: Neal’s mental health is doing
much better than it had been.


The not-so-good news: he went through some mind-blowingly bad
horrific experiences along the way.


Neal’s latest standup special, Blocks, is available
now on Netflix.


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